Stock-car



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81300K G1111. 110. 284,118. Patented 11ug.28,1888.

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' G.. D. BURTON STOCK UAR.

Patented Aug. 28,1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE D. BURTON, OF NEV IPSVICH, NEWT HAMPSHIRE.

STOCKCAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,116, dated August 28, 188.3.

Application filed May 31, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. BURTON, of New Ipswich, county of Hillsborough, State'of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Stock-Cars, of which the following description, in connection with the accompany ing drawings, is a specification7 like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention relates to stock-cars, and it consists in details of construction hereinafter described.

Figure lis a side elevation, partly in longitudinal section, of a stock-car constructed in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2, a plan view thereof, partly iiihorizontal section; Fig. 3, a longitudinal sectional elevation silnilar to that shown in Fig. l, on a larger scale; Fig. 4 a cross-section near the middle ofthe car, on a larger scale; and Figs. 5, 6, 7, and S, details of the novel stanchions employed.

The car-body c is provided near each end with a door, Z, for the admission ofthe cattle,

' front of the said feeding-trough is awatcringtrough, e, extending along near the side of the car, and provided with an overliow-pipe, j', (see Fig. 4,) and an emptying-pipe, g, having a suitable plug or stopper.

The two watering-troughs c at the opposite sides and ends of the car may be supplied with water from a single inlet funnel or opening, h, covered by a door, fi, at the middle of the car, and provided with branch pipes h h2, leading diagonally across the car to the two troughs, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

Corresponding to each stanchion and corresponding section of the feed-trough el is a feedreceptacle, lf, which may be filled through doors le at top of the car, cach receptacle having beneath it a measuring-chamber, 7a2,

' to contain sufficient material for a single meal,

the said chamber being provided with a delivery-pipe, 7c3, leading down to the different sections of the trough. The opening leading from the receptacle 7c into the chamber kz is controlled by a valve, 704, shown as composed of a board or strip of material extending through the entire series of feedingreceptacles, as shown in Fig. 3, and provided with a .series of openings, which, bythe longitudinal movement of the said valve-strip produced by the lever 755, connected therewith by the link or bar 7c, will move all the said openings into coincidence with that in the bottom of the receptacle k, as shown at the left hand in Fig. 3, thus permitting the mcasuring-chambers k2 to fill, the upper ends of the pipes 7e3 being then closed by a similar valve-strip, ks, connected by a link, k, with the said lever lc5 at the other side of its fulcrum. Both valves k and ks are operated simultaneously by the movement of the lever 7c5 in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 4, the said movement being made by an attendant upon the top of the car through one of sisting of a stationary upright, c, and a mova-` ble upright, c', pivoted at its lower end and operated by a lever, c2, to swing its upper end away froln the stationary upright, to permit the horns of the cattle to pass between the said uprights, after which the movable upright c is returned to its normal position, where it is held ,by a locking device, c, preventing the cattle from withdrawing their heads.

In some sections of the country the cattle have larger horns than in others, and the necks of some cattle are so much thicker than those of others that when the uprights of the stanchiens are placed at the average distance apart they would uncomfortably compress the necks of the said cattle.

Y In order to provide for different sizes of cattlc, the whole or a sufficient portion of the stanchions may be made as in Figs. 5 and 7 or as in Figs. 6 and S. In this construction the rmovable upright of, instead of having its lower end pivoted at a definite distance from the stationary upright and swinging with relation thereto at its upper end, is arranged to have a parallel movement toward and Afrom the said stationary upright. As shown in Figs. 5 and IOO 7 the movable upright c is connected at its upper and lower ends by links c4 With the yframe-Work, and it is provided at its upper end with a handle, c5, by Which it may be lifted, 5 and thus moved away from the stationary upright, as shown in dotted lines. horns and heads of the cattle have been passed between the uprights, the said movable upright c is permitted to move back until it After the y the notches, after which the upright may be movedlaterally as desired, and finally dropped 1 with theiingers in the proper notches to give the requisite Width between the stanchions.

In a stock-car, a cattle-stanchion consisting of a fixed upright combined With a movable upright, having a lateral movement at both ends relative to the said iiXed upright, and a locking device therefor, and the supporting- 3o beam proyided with a series of notches coioperating with the said locking device, substantially as described.,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two sub- 3 5 scribing Witnesses.

' GEO. D. BURTON.

Witnesses:

E. F. PERKINS, W. H. SIGsToN. 

